The perfect trading system?

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> Boyd, you'll like this story. It follows on
> from what you've posted!

> If you want to predict the future, it's
> easy.... Just time travel from the future,
> back to the past. Yes, that's what this guy
> did....

> Unless, of course, you believe the
> "alternative explanation" of the
> SEC!

> - Dien

> P.S. I'm not recommending doing what this
> guy did - this post is for entertainment
> purposes only. :)

> From
> http://movies.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html
> 'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER
> TRADING
> Wednesday March 19, 2003

> By CHAD KULTGEN

> NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have
> arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on
> insider-trading charges -- and incredibly,
> he claims to be a time-traveler from the
> year 2256!

> Sources at the Security and Exchange
> Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew
> Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for
> his uncanny success in the stock market
> after being led off in handcuffs on January
> 28.

> "We don't believe this guy's story --
> he's either a lunatic or a pathological
> liar," says an SEC insider.

> "But the fact is, with an initial
> investment of only $800, in two weeks' time
> he had a portfolio valued at over $350
> million. Every trade he made capitalized on
> unexpected business developments, which
> simply can't be pure luck.

> "The only way he could pull it off is
> with illegal inside information. He's going
> to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until
> he agrees to give up his sources."

> The past year of nose-diving stock prices
> has left most investors crying in their
> beer. So when Carlssin made a flurry of 126
> high-risk trades and came out the winner
> every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
> Street watchdogs.

> "If a company's stock rose due to a
> merger or technological breakthrough that
> was supposed to be secret, Mr. Carlssin
> somehow knew about it in advance," says
> the SEC source close to the hush-hush,
> ongoing investigation.

> When investigators hauled Carlssin in for
> questioning, they got more than they
> bargained for: A mind-boggling four-hour
> confession.

> Carlssin declared that he had traveled back
> in time from over 200 years in the future,
> when it is common knowledge that our era
> experienced one of the worst stock plunges
> in history. Yet anyone armed with knowledge
> of the handful of stocks destined to go
> through the roof could make a fortune.

> "It was just too tempting to
> resist," Carlssin allegedly said in his
> videotaped confession. "I had planned
> to make it look natural, you know, lose a
> little here and there so it doesn't look too
> perfect. But I just got caught in the
> moment."

> In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has
> reportedly offered to divulge
> "historical facts" such as the
> whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and a cure
> for AIDS.

> All he wants is to be allowed to return to
> the future in his "time craft."

> However, he refuses to reveal the location
> of the machine or discuss how it works,
> supposedly out of fear the technology could
> "fall into the wrong hands."

> Officials are quite confident the
> "time-traveler's" claims are
> bogus. Yet the SEC source admits, "No
> one can find any record of any Andrew
> Carlssin existing anywhere before December
> 2002."

> Weekly World News will continue to follow
> this story as it unfolds. Keep watching for
> further developments.